proedie<p>I just stumbled upon a website that returned an <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/httpstatuscode451" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>httpstatuscode451</span></a> (unavailable for legal reasons) because I am ‘attempting to access this <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/website" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>website</span></a> from a country outside of the United States’.</p><p>What a heap of <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/bullshit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullshit</span></a>! If you decide to service only one nation, it’s just <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/httpstatuscode403" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>httpstatuscode403</span></a> (forbidden).</p><p>451 is for <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>censorship</span></a>, not for <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/lazyness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lazyness</span></a>!</p><p>If you don’t want to comply with <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/GDPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GDPR</span></a> and see it as censorship – fine – use 451 if you must, but lock out <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/eea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eea</span></a> countries only! 🤦</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/httpstatuscodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>httpstatuscodes</span></a></p>